Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

by Hawksworth, David L.

• ISBN13: 9789048138487
• ISBN10: 9048138485
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation. The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore. The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries ' notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K.Cryopreservation, well established for ex situ preservation of bacteria and fungi, is shown here also applied to bryophyte conservation. Finance is always a problem, and the final contribution examines the sources of money available for conservation action in an examplar country, Mexico. Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in the conservation of biodiversity today. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology and biodiversity management courses.Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 18: 5 (2009)

Table of Contents

Annelids, arthropods or molluscs are suitable as surrogate taxa for selecting conservation reserves in estuaries	p. 1
Species' surrogacy for conservation planning: caveats from comparing the response of three arboreal rodents to habitat loss and fragmentation	p. 15
Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland	p. 31
Collembola as bioindicators of restoration in mined sand dunes of Northeastern Brazil	p. 45
An easy-to-use index of ecological integrity for prioritizing freshwater sites and for assessing habitat quality	p. 55
Changes in arthropod diversity along a land use driven gradient of shrub cover in savanna rangelands: identification of suitable indicators	p. 71
Developing a scuba trail vulnerability index (STVI): a case study from a Mediterranean MPA	p. 85
Monitoring large herbivore diversity at different scales: comparing direct and indirect methods	p. 103
A comparison of Australia's anuran records against the reserve system	p. 117
Sustainable biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta: a practical approach to conservation site selection	p. 131
Rarity and site selection for bryophyte conservation	p. 143
Implications of location specific data and their usefulness in conservation planning: an example from Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)	p. 157
Assessing habitat/landscape predictors of bird diversity in managed deciduous forests: a seasonal and guild-based approach	p. 171
A statistical methodology for tracking long-term change in reporting rates of birds from volunteer-collected presence-absence data	p. 189
Scenario-based assessment of future land use change on butterfly species distributions	p. 213
A model assessing the conservation threats to freshwater turtles of Sub-Saharan Africa predicts urgent need for continental conservation planning	p. 233
Does illegal hunting affect density and behaviour of African grassland birds? A case study on ostrich (Struthio camelus)	p. 245
A rapid and cost-effective tool for managing habitats of the European Natura 2000 network: a case study in the Italian Alps	p. 259
Markov models of territory occupancy: implications for the management and conservation of competing species	p. 273
Estimating historical commercial rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) catch inside Australian State territorial waters for marine protected area assessment: the binomial likelihood method	p. 287
How bryophytes came out of the cold: successful cryopreservation of threatened species	p. 297
Understanding investment in biodiversity conservation in Mexico	p. 305
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